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View More NewsMy latest installment on SCOTUSBlog urges the Justices to get out of the beltway, and hold oral argument across the fruited plane. The most likely sites would be the courthouses where the federal courts of appeals sit en banc, or all together: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit sits in Boston, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit sits in Manhattan, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit sits in Philadelphia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit sits in Richmond, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit sits…
In brief North Korea stole at least $2.8 billion in crypto between January 2024 and September 2025 and increasingly launders it through established criminal networks, a paper from British think tank RUSI says. Third parties sometimes buy the stolen coins outright at a discount, or the funds turn up mixed with proceeds from investment scams. Cashing out relies on money mules recruited in the Philippines, Indonesia and China, whose credentials sell cheaply enough to buy at scale. North Korea is increasingly pushing stolen cryptocurrency through the same money-laundering networks used by scam syndicates and organised crime, blurring the trail investigators…
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The story of Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor who has just resigned amid a scandal involving plagiarism, fabulism, and résumé-padding, has rattled a number of skeletons in Western academia’s closet. In 2023, Arday became the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge when he was appointed professor in the sociology of education at the age of 37. Arday had obtained his PhD from Liverpool John Moores University in 2015. The son of immigrants from Ghana who lived on a Clapham council estate, he claimed to have overcome autism and other disabilities that left him unable to read or write…
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South Korea will expand its crypto Travel Rule to all transfers between registered virtual asset service providers (VASPs), removing the current 1 million won…
Bitcoin’s ledger is a chain of blocks, each one a batch of transactions added by miners, firms running warehouses of specialised computers that compete…
Luke Dashjr lost his BIP editor privileges after developers raised concerns over his role in BIP 110 and its stalled minority fork. Read the…
That makes $70,000 the next area to watch, another round number with the 200-day moving average sitting nearby. Clearing it would put bitcoin above…
In brief Google introduced Gemini Omni at I/O 2026 as a multimodal AI model designed to generate video and other media from nearly any…
from the more-bullshit-than-the-bullshit-artists-can-handle dept As convenient as it is for cops to play along with hysterical claims made by politicians, sometimes a politician goes…
In every state and in the federal criminal justice system, when a crime victim is killed, the law allows a family member or other…
Donald Trump’s executive order asks the Fed to review how depository institutions may be granted access to payment services, an area the crypto industry…
In brief Nearly a decade after its founding and raising $100 million, Prometheum has officially executed its first crypto trades. Co-CEO Aaron Kaplan argues…
Bitcoin miners are emerging as an important part of the AI infrastructure supply chain because they control large amounts of power capacity and data…
From yesterday’s decision by Judge Hector Gonzalez (E.D.N.Y.) in Harr v. City of N.Y.: In 2003, in connection with the invasion of Iraq, the…
The research firm said bitcoin traders remain unusually defensive, reducing the risk of the kind of leverage-driven collapse seen in prior downturns. Read the…